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Prof. Giovanni Baranello

Giovanni Baranello is Professor of Paediatric Neuromuscular Disorders within the Developmental Neurosciences Teaching and Research Department, at the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London. Here he holds a joint clinical and research position since 2019 and serves as honorary consultant in Neuromuscular Diseases at the Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he is involved in the diagnosis and clinical management of children with different neuromuscular conditions.
Giovanni has been involved as principal investigator in numerous neuromuscular clinical trials, predominantly in the areas of Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His main area of research relates to translational research in neuromuscular conditions, development of outcome measures and biomarkers, natural history studies and long-term studies in patients receiving novel treatments. His research activity is also focused on developing treatments for rare congenital myopathies.
Giovanni completed his degree in Medicine, specialty in Child Neurology and Psychiatry, and PhD in Developmental Neurosciences from the Catholic University Medical School in Rome, Italy.

Prof. Linda S. de Vries

Linda S. de Vries trained as a pediatrician and neonatologist in the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She did her PhD in London, the UK and subsequently she also trained as a pediatric neurologist in Leuven, Belgium. From 1989 till 2019, she worked in the department of Neonatology in Utrecht, where she is now an emeritus professor in Neonatal Neurology. Since her official retirement she is also emeritus professor in Neonatal Neurology at the university of Leiden. She is a member of the steering committee of the Newborn Brain Society.
Her research focuses on prediction of neurodevelopmental outcome in high risk preterm and full-term newborns, using neurophysiology and neuro-imaging methods. These at-risk children were also seen by her in the follow-up clinic. She has a special interest in neonatal stroke and brain plasticity. She co- authored three books, The Atlas of Neonatal Brain Sonography; The atlas of amplitude-integrated EEGs in the newborn and Beyond the NICU. She co-authored more than 500 articles.

Prof. Ming Lim

Ming Lim undertook his undergraduate medical training at the University Nottingham, UK. Following completing his paediatric neurology training in South London, he began his doctoral research in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (London) with the award of a Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Fellowship. He was appointed as Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital; and is Professor in Paediatric Neurology within Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London. He is head of the children’s neuroscience department; research lead for Evelina London Hospital; and associate director of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Research Facility.
The Children's Neuroscience Department Brain and Spine Inflammation Service at the Evelina which be developed is a multidisciplinary clinical service with a successful research portfolio; leading and participating in multi-centre/multi-national investigator-led studies; contributing to industry-led studies; and collaborating in basic studies investigating the role of inflammation in neurodegeneration and immunobiology of antibody-mediated central nervous system disorders.
His work has contributed to important characterisation and understanding of many childhood inflammatory disorders and his team is credited in leading clinical and research programs which now seek to optimise the management of severe childhood neuroinflammatory disorders. The service infrastructure and collaborative national and international networks also provide crucial clinical and research training in paediatric neuroinflammation.

PD Dr. Kyriakos Martakis

Kyriakos Martakis is Associate Professor in Pediatric Neurology at the University Hospital of Cologne and the University Hospital of Giessen in Germany.
His clinical research interests are in the areas of pediatric neurorehabilitation, care of CP and SMA, as well as treatment of children with lysosomal diseases, ataxias and other rare movement disorders.
He has studied European Public Health and completed a PhD in ethics of children's public health in Maastricht University, the Netherlands.